what does 'ignore symbolic links' do?

[Thomas Troesch <ttroesch dslextreme com>]

Under Edit->Preferences->File Filters there is a check box to ignore symbolic 
links.  It does not seem to have any effect.

The link I have is to the parent directory in my working copy.  This is 
convenient for me because I am writing perl modules, and this way it is easy 
to write test programs that always 'point' to my working copy from svn.  This 
becomes a circular reference from the Meld point of view, and when the files 
are listed, flat or otherwise, it recurses until something runs out of room.  ( 
about 40 times, about 500 chars in the path name ).

I also tried to add a pattern that matched the name of the link, but it had no 
effect.  I didn't expect much there because the name of the link is the same as 
the parent directory.

Any ideas?

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Thomas Troesch
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